New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-22

bic roign The Dean of Westminster had his due
share perhaps tho organist aud choristers more
than their share.
When the last note had died away there came the
most touching scene Of all. The Queens sons
daughters and other kin by blood or marriage
who were grouped about her on he dais, came up
one by one, to her. The Prince of Wales came
first. bowed low and kissed his mothers hand. She'
as he rose, kissed him on both cheeks Prince after
prince performed this afeotonate homage each re-.
ceiving the Queens salute in return though on ono
check only. The prIncesses followed, one by one.
curtseying to the ground The Crown Princess OF
Germany came first, then the Princess of Wales
then Princess Christian aud Princess Beatrice. who
impulsively kissed her mothers hand second
time as she rose from her lowy obcsance. 1t was
such q glimpse of domestic life. domestic love
as the world rarely gets into royal circles.
THE RETURN TO THE PALACE
This charming little episode over, the procession
was reformed. The Queen moved slowly down the
aisle of lofty arches and bending heads, and so
vanished from ght beneath the screen which
divides the choir from the outer nave. Then came
the question: Was il possible to get away from
the Abbey and reach Hyde Park corner in time to
see the return of the procession With some good
fortune and much kindly official help the question
answered ITSELF Yes; so that long before the first
horseman appeared was balcony which gave
a suberb view Of Piccadilly and the green park III
all the freshness of an English June. The great
arch on Constitution Hill just opposite the
house, was crowded with human beings. All the
space which the police did not keep clear for the
procession was solid humanity. st. Georges
Hospital was great display of balconies filled
with men and women. There must have been
$4,000 people IN sight. The beat down
fiercely all these heads Never all day has
there been n cloud In the sky any more than
cloud on the Jubilee. Good humor has been uni
versaL / have spent hours in the streets beside
those III the Abbey and elsewhere, and heard never
an angry word. All these scores of thousands OF
people had waited patiently on foot for hours and
waited patiently still. They gaze up with what l
think most admirable temper at these comfortable
balconies 1t IS well past 2 O'Clock when mounted
policeman brings promise of the recoming of the
Queen. troop of the First Life Guards comes
not far behind HIM. | have left myself
neither space nor time for describing in detail the
cortege which now passed before u.s. Yet IL was
thing as memorable in its way as the ceremony In
the Abbey. Tie cavalry, If not numerous. for she
will allow herself only field officers escort, Is per-
fcction. The long line of mounted headquarters
staff is more gorgeous still. The royal carriages
conveying the royal suite seem TO be the most mag
nifcent of equipages till the Queens own carriage
feature Of the features OF this procession, the
mounted princes, who form Her Maiesty's
real escort. Again. as in the Abbey pro-
cessIon her three next to her.
the Prince of Wales rides in the middle. the Duke
of Edinburgh on the right and the Duke of Con-
naught on the left. They bestride horses which
are only surpassed by tho Duke OF Portands
black hunter. who has Just gone before and in
whom connOlsseurs delight. One irreverent critic
declares that the Duke # Edinburgh rides like the
sailor he is but he does not. The bronzed face OF
the Duke of Connaught is kindly greeted by the
crowd but the Prince of Wales gets most of the
cheers. SO did he. say my friends. when he rode
by the first time.
CHEERS IN yOLLEYs FOR THE QUEEN.
But the Queen is nigh. There Is no
mistaking those eight crcam-coored horses.
whose cream color is almost invisible be-
meath their trappings. Each horse
is led the coach is all gold and blazonry the har-
ness is heavy with god crimson tasseis are hanging
heavy from the horses necks, and the hunkeys be-
hind the carriage arc armored III gold lace Inc
whole turnout ia splendid beyond compare to un-
critical eyes The critic declares that the cream
colored horses will not keep step and pronounces
them brutes but no criticism matters. The Queen
is inside this marvellous chariot. the Crown
Princess of Germany and the Princess of Wales be-
ing on the front seat, and for the first time to-
day hear the laundering cheers OF the street All
these people have her and cheered her before.
but they cheer with steady British perseverance,
n IL having begun they meant never to leave OIL
The Queens face is shining with delight as never
saw il before She looks ten years younger aud
happier than a month since, when the West End
and East End together turned out to greet her.
Cheers follow cheers in voleys and all hats are off,
There are cheers even from these balconies where
fashion sits in all her cold oveiness and bored in
difference The Queen looks up to the balconies as
she passes, recognizes all of them friends bows
straight AT them passes on and away and round the
broad curve which takes her to the arch enveloped
and encompassed with this marvellous music OF the
buman voice in multitudInOus masses. We All
gaze after her as she and the Princesses and the
o,lt coach and cream colored horses disappear
beneath the arch: They reappear to us again on
the other side OF It. The whole procession goes
flashing by; CLEANS of gold come through the trees
a touch OF scarlet, a tossing name, falr face q
| mounted prince, perhaps then the rear guard OF
| those incomparable horsemen, and 1t Is all over;
over but not forgotten. to be forgotten by any
of the millions who have been happy enough TO
behold n pageautry admirable in Itself, and treoiy
memorable for its meaning to people In whom
| LOYALTY to a beloved Queen is a living force
G.w.s.
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
MN, otrrrN,c EaCORT TO TIE ABBEY